Building Website Traffic – Three Items Per Day For A Month
In: How To|Marketing By: Brian Armstrong
16
Jun
2007
In Breaking Free I list seven great business ideas that can be started for under $100, and blogging is one of them. I intend to put my money where my mouth is and demonstrate that live in front of you, quickly turning this into a profitable website.
So I’ve decided to do a little marketing challenge to help build traffic. Each day for the next 30 days, I will complete at least 3 tasks to market this website. My goal is to build traffic, get more subscribers, and sell books….but more importantly it is to prove that anyone can make a profitable website with a little dedication.
This challenge is in the spirit of Steve Pavlina’s 30 days to success and Journey Page. It also follows with the idea of making goals measurable and timely (having a deadline) which great authors have been talking about for years.
Each day I’ll post about what was done. How much can be accomplished in a month? We shall see.
There is absolutely no shortage of tasks to work from. For starters, I’ll be doing some SEO, taking some ideas from Problogger, this ebook on traffic building, and many others sources. Suggestions are always welcome.
The first day of the challenge will be today, Saturday the 16th of June, 2007. The challenge will end the 16th of July, 2007. Let the games begin!
This post is part of a series on Website MarketingTable of Contents:
- Building Website Traffic – Three Items Per Day For A Month
- Day 1: FeedBlitz, SEO, and Post Series
- Day 2: New Article, Amazon Cover Upload, and Digg Comments
- Day 3: LinkMachine, Google Website Optimizer, and ProBlogger
- Day 4: Interviews, SEOMoz, and Technorati
- Day 5: First Page of Google, Bugs, Article Marketing Lifehack.org
- Day 6: Email Signature, Blog Carnival, StumbleUpon
- Day 7: Link Structure, Pings, MyBlogLog
- Day 8: FeedFlares, Reciprocal Links, Broken Links
- Day 9: Page Cache, 301 Redirects, and Submitting to Blog Search Engines
- Day 10: Removed Bad Links, Earning $5639 Per Year, Tracking RSS Subscribers
- Day 11: Article for ProBlogger.net, StumbleUpon campaign, and Longer Domain Registration (attempt)
- Day 12: Extended Domain Registration, More Incoming Links, Article Submission
- Day 13: Successful and Outstanding Bloggers list, Backlinks Advice from Yaro Starak, and DMOZ
- Day 14: MindPetals Article, Slow Server, Google vs. Yahoo indexing
- Day 15: Submitted MindPetals Article, Conversation with Liz Strauss, and LifeHack.org Article
- Day 16: Engaging readers in conversation, Interview on Calling All Authors, and a Research Tip from John Reese
- Day 17: Posted Interview Audio, Faster Server, and New Business Cards
- Day 18: Article for LifeHack.org, Contacted About.com Contributer, Updated my LinkIn profile
- Day 19: Barnes & Noble, Froogle, and Shopping.com
- Day 20: Meta Keywords and Descriptions, New Article, 37Signals Blog
- Day 21: New Video On YouTube, Creating a Personal Balance Sheet, and Article Marketer
- Day 22: Purchased a Water Buffalo, Apple’s Marketing, and RSS Confusion
- Day 23: A New About Page, ProBlogger Article Finished, and More Comments
- Day 24: Keyword Research, more Links Exchanged, Article Distribution
- Day 25: Translated into 8 Languages, A Version For Mobile Devices, and Submitted To Dozens of Blog Directories
- Day 26: More RSS Directories, Alumni Networking, Alexa Screenshot Update
- Day 27: New Article on Audio Books, Removed Translation, and Networking Tips
- Day 28: Amazon, Amazon, Amazon!
- Day 29: Zero Million, Yahoo Answers, Wikipedia
- Day 30: Wrapping Up With A Few Final Links
- Conclusion
Bruce Donohue
June 16th, 2007 at 7:36 pm
A novel approach. I’m going to try to emulate it myself. Not just pma type stuff but an actual motivating, seems possible, tactic. Wish you well.
Goes right along with having a” Definite Big aim” or a “big Haiairy Audacious Goal”, coupled with a burning desire and the “Go the extra mile” persistence theme.
Steve Brubaker
March 1st, 2008 at 12:40 am
Brian -
Great blog and thanks for the tips. It is a good feeling to know that I have been implementing some of you marketing strategies already. For your faithful readers that are interested in Free Website Submission, please direct them to http://www.stevenbrubaker.net
Best wishes and to your success!
Steve Brubaker
http://www.stevenbrubaker.net
Debbie
June 16th, 2008 at 2:41 pm
I’m trying to get in touch with Dara. My name is Debbie. I went to school with her in Belgium.
Gopal
October 22nd, 2008 at 7:02 pm
Looks like a very comprehensive marketing strategy. I’m sure if done consistently for 30 days and beyond a lot of traffic will be generated. Translate that into a high conversion rate and you’re set! Best, G
http://www.boom.thevfusiongroup.biz
Courtney Lloyd
May 3rd, 2010 at 4:20 pm
it is really hard to build massive traffic on a website. you need to promote your website by blog commenting or PPC advertising~`”
Sterling Newkirk
June 25th, 2010 at 7:36 am
This is the first I’ve seen of your writing, and I’ll be back definitely. I coach people who work from home every day, and this is GOLDEN.